1 2 Understanding Target Market BMW Company BMW is a company based in Germany, and it was established in 1916 to make military aircraft. Later it switched to building automobiles dealing with multiple brands BMW, Rover, Rolls-Royce, and Mini. BMW acquired these additional brands beginning as early as 1994 until the present time. The company is still outstanding on the sale of high-class cars. The company promotes a culture of top performance and teamwork, which makes it be highly ranked. The company has set up two main goals: one of them is to remain profitable, and secondly, it’s to raise the long-term value of BMW. The company has focused on making it collaborations stable between its three brands. Also, it employs employees who can enhance the spirit of teamwork and ready to take risks. It is also planning on how they can make universal engines that can be used by different car models. (Kasi, 2010) Regarding customer analysis, the target group of its products is the young audience. Different car models have different clients. The BMW targets people of 20-65 years of age, MINI targets people aged 25-45 years finally Rolls Royce targets individuals who are 40 years and above. Regarding gender, these automobiles target both male and females. These cars are associated with people who have a high income that is professionals and executives. By geographic, these cars are sold both locally and internationally and mostly in the urban areas. (Dudovskiy, 2016) SWOT Analysis This company has various strengths. One of them is that its cars are classic, comfortable and less fuel consumption. The cars are additionally safe because of the technology involved; this makes them more durable. They are also environmentally friendly. Out of this, they have a strong reputation that makes them be known all over the world. This particular company has successfully maintained its corporate social responsibility, and also it has a high recognition in China; this attracts them more customers, which help them achieve their targeted sales. On the other end, the companies still have some weaknesses. One of them is that their cars are very costly which may imply that the customers may be few. It has a high-cost structure that in a way may make the brand name to be weaker in some market segments. Brand portfolio diversification is also a weakness to the company. The company also has some opportunities including, plans for expansion, increase the price of fuel. Despite the BMW Company performing at its best, it still faces stiff competition from other companies that make classic cars, for example, Mercedes-Benz, Acura, and Lexus among others. This acts as a threat to BMW Company, but hard work and dedication are enough to ensure that it out does the competition. The decrease in prices of fuel, the rise in the price of raw materials and rise in euro exchange rate all pose a threat to the company. PEST Analysis The external environment also has a great impac ...